Left to right: Professor Brian Millar, Professor Nairn Wilson, Simon Gambold, Dale Cooper King’s College London Dental Institute’s Flexible Graduate Programme has received recognition with a $548,000 donation from leading health care product provider company, Henry Schein, Inc. The money will fund training, scholarships and awards.
The Dental Institute trains up to 20 per cent of all dentists in the UK and, with its pioneering approach to online learning, also provides professional training to dentists from almost 60 countries worldwide with five flexible learning graduate programmes.
The support presents an exciting opportunity for a five-year partnership with Henry Schein, a Fortune 500® company and a member of the NASDAQ 100® Index, and the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based practitioners.
Professor Nairn Wilson, Dean and Head of the Dental Institute, comments: ‘We are grateful to Henry Schein for its most generous support of the Institute’s innovative Flexible Graduate Programme which is anticipated to include 220 students in more than 30 countries in 2011.
‘With the support of Henry Schein, the Dental Institute will be able to strengthen greatly its promotion of state-of-the-art clinical practice, widening participation and excellence in its flexible Masters programmes. The worldwide impact of the Henry Schein initiative on the outcomes and benefits of King’s flexible graduate studies in dentistry will be very substantial, with students and their patients being the beneficiaries of the generosity of Henry Schein.’
Together the Dental Institute and Henry Schein will foster international dental leadership and expertise through the Flexible Graduate Programme. Using student support, postgraduate training and professional development, the partnership will focus on the dentist as a lifelong learner and leader. It will provide innovative, integrated health care and deliver the best quality patient treatment.
‘We are very pleased to build further on our collaboration with King’s College London Dental Institute through this exciting program,’ says Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein, Inc. ‘Through this initiative, we share the Dental Institute’s commitment to provide graduate students with the tools they need to succeed, and provide resources to promising students who otherwise may not have the means to achieve this level of education.'
The donation includes:
• The supply of a package of dental products and materials to each first-year graduate student commencing the Flexible Graduate Programme
• Five Henry Schein Scholarships per annum to support graduate students on one of the Flexible Graduate programmes
• A Henry Schein Events Programme to support professional networking activities
• The Henry Schein Excellence Award which will honour a Flexible Graduate Programme graduate each year for exemplary application of their new knowledge and understanding.
Professor Brian Millar, Director of Distance Learning at the Dental Institute, adds: ‘I am delighted to see this collaboration, which will be of great benefit to our blended learning graduate students, now in place. When our dentists attend the face-to-face hands-on sessions as part of their training we teach them with top quality materials. This agreement means that when they return to their practices any where in the world they will receive, at no cost to themselves, a package of the same materials and instruments with which they trained.
‘The Scholarships and Awards offered by Henry Schein are most welcome and show their commitment to dentistry worldwide. We are delighted to be working with them on this.’
At an event on Wednesday 10 November at the Guy’s Campus, the agreement was formally signed by representatives of the Dental Institute and Henry Schein.
Notes to Editors
King’s College London Dental Institute
King’s College London Dental Institute is the largest academic dental centre Europe. The Institute trains 20 per cent of all dentists in the UK and with its innovative approach to online learning, also provides professional training to dentists from almost 60 countries world-wide. The Institute’s excellence in teaching and research is reflected in the top ratings by quality assurance and various external assessment processes. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/dentistry/
The Dental Institute offers the five qualifications by distance learning to meet the needs of dental and health practitioners. Most programmes offer a blended learning approach, combining online learning with a face to face intensive 9-day residential once a year. Dentists wanting more details go to: www.kcl.ac.uk/distancedentistry
Henry Schein Inc
Henry Schein (NASDAQ: HSIC), is recognized for its excellent customer service and highly competitive prices, the Company’s five businesses – North American Dental, North American Medical, North American Animal Health, International and Technology – serve more than 700,000 customers worldwide, including dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. Headquartered in Melville, N.Y., Henry Schein employs more than 13,500 people and has operations or affiliates in 24 countries. The Company's net sales reached a record $6.5 billion in 2009. http://www.henryschein.co.uk/default.aspx
King’s College London
King’s College London is one of the top 25 universities in the world (2010 QS international world rankings), The Sunday Times ‘University of the Year 2010/11’ and the fourth oldest in England. A research-led university based in the heart of London, King’s has nearly 23,000 students (of whom more than 8,600 are graduate students) from nearly 140 countries, and some 5,500 employees. King’s is in the second phase of a £1 billion redevelopment programme which is transforming its estate.
King’s has an outstanding reputation for providing world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for British universities, 23 departments were ranked in the top quartile of British universities; over half of our academic staff work in departments that are in the top 10 per cent in the UK in their field and can thus be classed as world leading. The College is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of nearly £450 million.
King’s has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar. It is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe; no university has more Medical Research Council Centres.
King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King’s Health Partners. King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
Further information
Public Relations Department
Email: pr@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7848 3202
No comments:
Post a Comment